Bobcat Goldthwait (Robert Francis Goldthwait) Quotes

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

Bobcat Goldthwait

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• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Political
  • Always

• I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ethics

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • People
  • Art
  • Support

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Concern
  • Plays
  • Tournament

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Man
  • Political
  • Small

• I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • God
  • Power

• Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Me
  • Trust

• People see images now more than they see movies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Movies
  • Now

• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Marriage
  • Married

• Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter how progressive. If you cut too far into that progressive, if you do something that's too radical, white racism will emerge.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

  

  John Breaux
  • Country
  • Words

• What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • American

• I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Believe
  • America

• Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Promise
  • Ceremony

• When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • Job
  • Baby
  • Meat